Bonza Jigsaw

I completed the Starter Pack. The new features of pieces appearing as you connect currently showing pieces and needing to rotate pieces is interesting. I am concerned that as puzzles get larger and more complex those features may become more of a problem making play less enjoyable. Biggest complaint is that apparently you are making this a subscription puzzle but you don’t give the prices or pricing structure prior to starting the Free Trial. If you need to charge to play your puzzles, then charge, but give people a price up front. ** Update... Thank you to Bonza for responding to my comments. The update is great!! The option to rotate prices or not and the free daily puzzles are tremendous features. I love all Bonza games and play them daily. Thank you for unique, fun, challenging and entertaining puzzles and for listening to your fans.

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The latest update punishes non-subscribers to a degree that is unacceptable. Before, it was an option to click to have and ad played so you can get bonus points awarded or have borders added to your puzzle to ease gameplay. However, much of ad-watching was completely optional. While you still have those options, there are now non-optional automatic ads played between every puzzle. This wouldn’t be as bad if it weren’t for the fact that most of the puzzles are solved in under a minute, so playing this game can easily end up being 50% gameplay and 50% watching ads. That is ridiculous. Some of the ads last longer than 30 seconds too (like the Empire and Puzzle ad that makes you watch a commercial than makes you wait 30 more seconds stuck in a game demo mode). The previous free-play (ad-supported) mode was far more acceptable. Only download if you don’t mind spending nearly as much time watching non-optional ads as you do playing the actual game. Hopefully, the powers that be will reverse this asinine change. It seems designed to annoy players to subscribe at $4 month.

I have been in love with Bonza’s jigsaw puzzles since the first one they had in Bonza National Geographic. I was thrilled when they announced they were working on a jigsaw-only game, and impatient for them to release it. It was worth the wait! I wasn’t sure how I would like pieces being added in gradually, but it is brilliantly done - it keeps you guessing about the ultimate size and allows for longer play and larger puzzles. Don’t worry though, there are still some smaller ones. The other mode variations - mirrored, rotated, blind, patience (get comfortable, this will take a while), and blitz (timed), are so much better, more fun, than I ever imagined! Word of warning: highly addictive, I hardly got a thing done yesterday!

Update: With the addition of the option to turn off portion control, I downloaded the app again. I've only done one puzzle and haven't really checked out the other features again yet, but I'm very happy with the puzzle I completed! Upgraded to 4 stars. I don't like Bonza Jigsaw nearly as well as the jigsaw puzzles in Bonza NatGeo. There are a lot of new features in this game, and some of them could be great. But none of them can overcome the way the puzzles are presented. Each puzzle is presented chunk by chunk, and I haven't found a way to disable this. So you get only a few pieces at a time, which makes the puzzle more manageable — but what if you don't want that? And worse, the app automatically adjusts the zoom to make space every time it gives you new pieces. It's jarring and annoying. I'm deleting this app. I'll get my puzzles in Bonza NatGeo.

I opted not to subscribe (I think it was $3.99 a week but even $0.98 is a lot in a year) but you can still play most of the games. They have a question each day about a country and something about it (capital, animals, flowers etc) with two possible answers; you get points for right answers. Some answers are easy, some you may need to look up. Lots of puzzles from Nat Geo photos along with a little information. Some puzzles have time limits, some disappear, some are reversed, some have LOTS of pieces, some are simple and normal. You need to watch a video to play most puzzles. I love Nat Geo and am willing to sit thru all the ads because I love the photos and info and most of the puzzles are fun. You may find it too tedious.